The true prophecies or prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the best astronomers that ever were.: A work full of curiosity and learning. Translated and commented by Theophilus de Garencieres, Doctor in Physick Colleg. Lond.Nostradamus
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The true prophecies or prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the best astronomers that ever were.: A work full of curiosity and learning. Translated and commented by Theophilus de Garencieres, Doctor in Physick Colleg. Lond.
Nostradamus
Astrology -- Early works to 1800; Prophecies -- Early works to 1800
The rest signifieth no more, but that there shall be some Warlike
Stratagem made use of by the _French_ (understood here by the names of
_Wine and Salt_) in puting fire into Barrels.
XXXV.
French.
Par Cité franche de la grand Mer _Seline_,
Qui porte encor l’estomach la pierre,
_Angloise_ classe viendra soubs la bruine,
Prendre un rameau de grand ouverte guerre.
English.
By a free City of the _Selyne_ Sea,
Which carrieth yet the stone in the Stomach,
An _English_ Fleet shall come under a fog,
To take a branch of great open War.
ANNOT.
What should the Author mean by the free City of the great _Seline_ Sea
that carryeth yet the stone in the Stomach, is hard to guess; for my
part I believe it to be _Venice_. First, because by the _Seline_ Sea, he
always understands the _Mediterranean_; because the great _Turks_ name in
our Authors time was _Selyn_, who was Master of the greatest part of it.
Secondly, there is no other free City so considerable as this. Thirdly,
by the stone in the Stomach, may be understood, the Pillars that are in
the _Piazza_ of St. _Mark_, and as it were in the Centre of _Venice_,
as the Stomach is in the Body. The sense therefore is this, as I take
it, that a considerable _Fleet_ shall come to _Venice_, or rather to
_Molamocco_, which is the Harbour, and there take a branch of great open
War, that is, to be either against the _Venetians_, or against the _Turk_
in their behalf.
XXXVI.
French.
De Sœur le frere par simulte feintise,
Viendra mesler rosee en Mineral,
Sur la placente donne a vieille tardive,
Meurt le goustant, sera simple rural.
English.
The Brother of the Sister, with a fained dissimulation,
Shall mix Dew with Mineral,
In a Cake given to a slow old woman,
She dieth tasting of, the deed shall be simple, and Countrey like.
ANNOT.
This foretelleth a notable poisoning that shall be done by a Brother
upon his Sister, which, because she died not fast enough, according to
his mind: and therefore called her _slow_, he would set her forward with
a poisoned Cake, the Poison was _Mineral_, and therefore _Arsenick_ or
_Sublimate_, mixed with _Manna_, called here _Dew_; because _Manna_ is
nothing but a _Dew_, condensed upon the Bark of a certain Tree; the
Conclusion is, that the woman shall die eating of it, though the meat
seemed to be simple and rural.
XXXVII.
French.
Trois sens seront d’un vouloir & accord,
Qui pour venir au bout de leur attainte,
Vingt mois apres tous eux & leurs records,
Leur Roy trahy simulant haine, feinte.
English.
Three hundred shall be of one mind and agreement,
That they may compass their ends,
twenty months after by all them and their partners,
Their King shall be betrayed, by dissembling a fained hatred.
ANNOT.
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The true prophecies or prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the best astronomers that ever were.: A work full of curiosity and learning. Translated and commented by Theophilus de Garencieres, Doctor in Physick Colleg. Lond. — John Shaqi
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